- very very very
- touching the sky with two arms
- honest bones
- this cloud, this crust, this doubt, this dust
- not quite ever only
- ginny
- VLOG
- crocuses
- true facts from nature
- a pillow fort for sappho
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produced as a site-specific installation for the City of Waterloo Airport’s public art program
photo credits: Alissa Gee
Collage and patchwork are both practices of bringing disparate surfaces together. The sky can rub up against white flowers, which in turn become like its clouds. touching the sky with two arms was created by collecting images from second-hand books and assembling them according to the flying geese quilt block. The piece pays homage to the quilting history of Waterloo Region and the inbetween-ness of airports. Airports, places of comings and goings, are poised between the anonymity of the sky and the specificity of the land they occupy and its botanical life. In this work, sky and flora are abstracted into pattern, the familiar imagery becoming stranger as it is blown up and jumbled around. Like looking up into the sky for too long and seeing fuzzes of floating static, new patterns start to emerge.
Thank you to Barb Hobot for organizing the printing and installation of this work.